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Gabourey Sidibe's perfectly beautiful Ms. Foundation speech was a long-overdue rebuttal to a culture that eats confidence for breakfast. We're enmeshed in a national "confidence gap" dialogue, launched by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman's recent cover story in The Atlantic, which spelled out evidence that women are less self-assured than men, consider themselves less promotion-worthy, predict they'll do worse on tests and generally underestimate their abilities. "Women feel confident only when they are perfect," the authors wrote. "Or practically perfect." The piece, based on Kay and Shipman's new book, "The Confidence Code:...

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